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PLYMOUTH

SX4854SW LOOE STREET, Barbican
740-1/62/22 (South side)
01/05/75 No.38
(Formerly Listed as:
LOOE STREET, Plymouth
No.38)

GV II

Town house with later shop. Early-mid C18. Painted brick to
front, slatehanging to rear wing; dry slate steep roofs except
that lower roof at far rear is tarred over the slates, the
front roof is half-hipped and has deep moulded eaves with
modillion cornice both at front and at rear, the rear roofs
hipped at their rear ends. Single-depth-plan range at the
front and deep wing at right angles to rear left.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; regular 4-window range. C18 or early C19
hornless sashes with glazing bars except for 1 later horned
sash to rear wing. Front has plinth, mid-floor bands and
segmental arches above the 1st and 2nd-floor windows. Ground
floor has simple mid C19 shopfront on the left and wide
segmental-arched doorway on the right. The shopfront has pair
of 2-pane hornless sashes on its left and overlight to narrow
doorway on its right. Rear wing facing to right is a
2:2-window range plus 2 small lights inserted in the C20. The
right-hand part has paired sashes including pair of C18 sashes
with thick glazing bars on the right.
INTERIOR: not inspected but likely to be of interest.
Part of a significant group of C17 and C18 houses.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
664).

Listing NGR: SX4812454368